Benjamin Greenwood Gregg

Human Rights as Social Construction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Gregg examines an alternative view on human rights where they are locally developed, freely embraced and indigenously valid.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781107015937
• ISBN-10: 1107015936
• Artikelnr.: 33874848

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Gregg teaches social and political theory at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration across Communities of Belief (2003) and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms: A Theory of Enlightened Localism (2003). His articles have appeared in Political Theory, the Review of Politics, Theory and Society, Polity, Ratio Juris, Comparative Sociology and the International Review of Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. This-Worldly Norms, Local Not Universal: 1. Human rights: political
not theological; 2. Human rights: political not metaphysical; 3. Generating
universal human rights out of local norms; Part II. This-Worldly Resources
for Human Rights as Social Construction: 4. Cultural resources: individuals
as authors of human rights; 5. Neurobiological resources: emotions and
natural altruism in support of human rights; Part III. This-Worldly Means
of Advancing the Human-Rights Idea: 6. Translating human rights into local
cultural vernaculars; 7. Advancing human rights through cognitive
re-framing; Part IV. Human Rights, Future Tense: Human Nature and Political
Community Reconceived: 8. Human rights via human nature as cultural choice;
9. The human-rights state; Part V. Coda: 10. What is lost, and what gained,
by human rights as social construction.